The Role
The Compliance Accountant is responsible for state royalty and tax filings, ensuring compliance and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, along with developing relationships with state agencies and providing training to junior staff.
Summary Generated by Built In
Report and pay state royalties and tax filings; ensure compliance with state regulatory requirements; and reconcile balance sheet accounts.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Prepare monthly state royalties and tax filings/payment requests, including prior period adjustments and amendments, to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
- Develop and maintain a constructive working relationship with the state agencies through timely responses to inquiries.
- Review state tax regulations to ensure compliance and all incentives and exemptions are being properly accounted for and applied.
- Maintain working knowledge of regulatory statues, changes to regulations, and provide interpretation guidance as needed.
- Prepares balance sheet account reconciliations for assigned accounts on a monthly basis.
- Enhance monthly processes by increasing accuracy and creating efficiencies.
- Performs special projects that require knowledge of state reporting as needed.
- Assists in audits and inquiries from other functions/outside parties.
- Provides training and guidance to junior staff and new employees.
Other Job Responsibilities:
- Adheres to the company’s values – integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment, and innovation.
- Supports company vision and mission.
- Adheres to established work schedule, attendance standards and is punctual to work and meetings.
- Maintains employee confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
- Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional associations.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications:
- Three (3) years minimum experience in oil and gas compliance accounting.
- Three (3) years minimum experience in revenue accounting.
- Ability to proactively identify and solve complex problems with little assistance or guidance.
- Ability to solve problems accurately and exhibit exceptional proficiency in data management, including spreadsheet proficiency.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, managers of other departments, regulators, and the public.
- Ability to complete multiple, diverse tasks of differing priorities.
- Outstanding administrative and organizational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with specific ability to translate complex revenue data into an organized and presentable manner.
- Proficiency in the use and application of the following software:
- Required: Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and Outlook).
- Preferred: SAP PRA, and Alteryx.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year university or college with a degree in accounting.
Certifications, Licenses, Registrations:
- None.
Top Skills
Alteryx
Excel
MS Office
Outlook
Sap Pra
Word
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The Company
What We Do
Hilcorp Energy Company was founded in 1989 with the vision of being the premier independent energy company in America. Today, it is now the largest privately owned oil and natural gas company in the country. Hilcorp is a company founded on the principles of innovation and entrepreneurism. Our Core Values of "integrity, urgency, ownership, alignment, and innovation" are central to everything we do and are fundamental to our culture.








